Wool-spinning machine



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ATENT WOOL-SPINNING MACHINE SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 605,203, dated June 7,1898.

Application filed December 7,1896.

T0 (025 whom) it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. NEW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Morrellville, in the county of Brown and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ool-Spinning Machines;

full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to'make and use the same.

This invention relates to wool-spinning machines, and aims to provide in a single, compact, and simple machine means for transforming a sliver, into a thread of yarn and thereafter twisting the same and winding it upon a spool or bobbin, provision being also made whereby a flier is reciprocated longitudinally of the bobbinfor directing a thread thereto. The machine also provides for com-. pensating for the increase in the size of the bobbin as the thread is wound thereon for imparting the necessary and equal twist to the threaddurin g the entire operation ofwinding the bobbin. These and other objects and advantages of the invention will appear more clearly as the description proceeds.

The invention consists in certain novel features and details of construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and incorporated in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1.is a side elevation of a machine constructed in accordance with the presentinvention.- Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section through the ma- Fig. 4 is an end view of the machine. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective viewshowin g the engagement between the shipping-fork and the sleeve of the flier or thread-guide. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective viewshowing the manner of mounting and actuating the shipping-fork.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

Themachine contemplated in this invention comprises a bed-plate 1, which may be mounted upon the top of an ordinary sewingmachine table and driven by means of a belt 2,-passing over the sewing-machine wheel. In

SerialNo. 614,803. (No model-T suitably spac ed standards 3, extending upward from thebed-plate 1, is joiirnaled the shaft 4 of a pulley, comprising a stepped portion 5 and a conical portion 6, said pulley being driven by the belt2 and imparting motion to the other operati've parts of the machine.

7 designatesa main axle'or spindle, which is mounted in bearings 8 on the standards 3, said axle being provided with'a cone-pulley 9, having its surface sloped reversely to the pulley 6 and driven therefrom by means of a belt 10, revolving around both of said pulleys and adapted to be shifted longitudinally on said pulleys in a manner hereinafter described. The axle 7, is adapted to'have removably fitted upon one end thereof a bobbin or spool 11, preferably of tapering form, as shown, and adapted to have the yarn wound thereon as it is fed into the machine. Surrounding the main shaft or axle 7, between the pulley 9 and the bobbin 11, is a sleeve or hollow shaft 12, provided atoneend with a stepped pulley 13, receiving a belt 14. from the stepped pulley 5, above referred to,whereby motion is imparted to said hollow shaft. The shaft 12 is provided with a longitudinal slot 14, and surrou nding said shaft is a sleeve 15, having a feather which engages the slot 14, thereby causing said sleeve to rotate with the shaft 12. Connected rigidly to the sleeve 15 are the arms' 16 of arectangular frame 17, constituting the flier, and this flier is provided at its other end with a guide-eye 18, through which the thread or yarn 19 passes, said yarn also passing through other spaced bend 25, which are connected to aslide-block 26, mounted to reciprocate in a longitudinally-grooved guide 27, superposed above the bed-plate 1, the pivotal connection between said shipping -fork and slide block being shown at 28.

The main axle or shaft 7 is provided at its outer end with a worm-wheel 29,which meshes eyes 20 on one of the side bars of the flier.

with a horizontal spur-gear 30, fast on a vertical shaft 31, mounted in bearings in the frame of the machine and provided at its .upper end with a, second worm-wheel 32, which meshes with and drives a spur gearwheel 33, revolving on a horizontal axis and having attached pivotally thereto a bailshaped fork 84, provided with spaced fingers or studs 35 for engaging the belt at its opposite edges. Thus as the spur gear-Wheel 33 is rotated by the'mechanism described through the medium of the shipping-fork 34 the belt 10 is shifted along the cone-pulleys 6 and 9 for increasing or diminishing the speed at whichthe main shaft '7 is driven, it

1 being understood that the speed of said shaft should be increased as the bobbin fills with yarn-in order to prevent the too-rapid inflow of the yarn, which would result in the breakage thereof. The worm-wheel 29 also meshes with and drives a spur-pinion 36, fast on an obliquely-disposed shaft 37, j ournaled on bearin gs on the machine-frame, and also carrying a fixed pulley 38, from which a belt 39 extends longitudinally of the machine frame and passes around the larger band-pulley 40, fast on the shaft 41 of one of the feed-rolls 42, two of said rolls being shown as arranged opposite each other and adapted to engage the incoming sliver and draw the same out into a thread or yarn. One of said rolls 42 is operatively connected by means of a belt 43 with one of a pair of initial rolls 44, between which the sliver (indicated at 45) enters, the last-named pair of rolls being rotated at a slower rate of speed than the rolls 42. Motion is imparted to the shipping-fork 24 by means of a connecting rod or pitman 46, connected atone end to the pivot 28 and at its opposite end to a crank-pin 47 on the horizontal spur-gear 30, and as this spur-gear is driven at a variable speed, corresponding to the position of the belt 10 on the cone-pulleys 6 and 9, it will be seen that the flier 16 will be reciprocated longitudinally of the bobbin and its motion decreased in proportion as the bobbin increases in size.

In the operation of the machine the sliver passes in between the rolls 44 and is drawn by means of the more rapidly revolving rolls 42 into the thread or yarn, whereupon it passes through the eyes 18 and 20 of the flier, which, owing to its rotation, effects a twisting of the yarn and at the same time winds the yarn onto the bobbin 11, which also rotates with a slower motion in the same direction as the flier. Simultaneously with the rotation of the flier and by means of the mechanism hereinbefore described the flier is reciprocated back and forth lengthwise of rious changes in the form, proportion, and

minor details of construction, which may accordingly be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the ad vantages of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. The bobbin-shaft having provision at one end for the attachment of a bobbin and provided at or near its opposite end with a wormwheel, in combination with a flier having a feather-and-spline engagement with a hollow shaft which surrounds the bobbin-shaft and is driven independently thereof, a spur gear- Wheel meshing with and driven by said wormwheel, and connections between said spurgear and theflier, whereby said flier is reciprocated as the bobbin-shaft is rotated, substantially as described.

2. The bobbin-shaft having provision at one end for the attachment of a bobbin and provided at or near its opposite end with a wormwheel, means foractuating said bobbin-shaft, a hollow shaft surrounding said bobbin-shaft, actuating means therefor, a flier revolving around the bobbin and having a feather-andspline connection with said hollow shaft, a spur gear-wheel meshing with and driven by said worm-wheel, a shipping-fork engaging said flier; and a pitman or connecting-rod interposed between said spur gear-whecl and shipping-fork, whereby the flier is reciprocated as the bobbin is rotated, substantially as described.

3. The bobbin-shaft having provision at one end for the attachment of the bobbin, and provided with a worm-wheel in combination with means for actuatingsaid shaft, a hollow shaft surrounding said bobbin-shaft, a'flier having a feather-and-spline con neotion with said hollow shaft, means for actuating said shaft, a shipping-fork engaging said flier at one end and connected at its opposite end to a slideblock, a lon git udinally-grooved guide in which said block reciprocates, a spur gear-wheel meshing with and actuated by said wormwheel, and a connecting-rod interposed between said slide-block and spur gear-wheel, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specificationin the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WVILLIAM WV. NEW.

Witnesses:

RILEY E. HILL, II. E. BARTLETT. 

